Word: magna
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greatest thing since the Magna Carta," cheered a New Jersey defense lawyer. "A black-letter day for law enforcement," mourned a Philadelphia prosecutor. Tossing out two New Jersey murder confessions, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Philadelphia had just ruled that even voluntary confessions are inadmissible whenever police fail to tell suspects that they have a right to counsel and to remain silent when questioned...
Last week in Bonn, after five years of committee hearings and debate, the Bundestag finally voted to deNazify corporate law. The sweeping reform legislation that it passed is virtually a stockholders' Magna Carta that will curb the power of industrial kings and guarantee the rights of stockholders. The law, which applies to publicly owned companies, should also provide German industry with a new flow of badly needed capital...
Britons were honoring Kennedy for more than mere kinship. Runnymede, the "birthplace of constitutional government," is where King John signed the Magna Carta in 1215. Harold Wilson eulogized Kennedy for his struggle on behalf of "human dignity and equality." Said Jackie, in a message of thanks: "My husband had the greatest affection for the British people and what you represent around the world. One day my children will realize what it means to have their father honored at Runnymede...
...These words are not merely empty vessels," said Griswold. They go back 750 years to Magna Carta; yet the states so ignored them that in 1905 the highly conservative William Howard Taft, who later became Chief Justice, called U.S. state criminal justice "a disgrace to our civilization." As recently as 1923, the Supreme Court confronted the fact that Arkansas' highest court had upheld death sentences meted out in a trial "dominated by mob violence" (Moore v. Dempsey). Was the Supreme Court wrong in reversing that decision? What about confessions "obtained by brutality or by fraud?" asked the dean. Since...
...could find no other major with the Advanced Standing program and noted that slightly fewer than of the advanced standing students the classes of 1958-61 graduated magna cum laude. Academic perform prove that few freshmen accept standing for the "wrong i.e. for prestige or to avoid Education Ahf, lower level Gen requirements, and the physical requirement...